Monthly Archives: August 2010

An XCache ‘gotcha’

XCache is a PHP opcode cacher. This is good and well as it speeds up pageloads by removing PHP parsing overhead. On the downside, you must remember to restart your PHP processes after changing PHP files, as XCache doesn’t seem … Continue reading

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Success

Today’s WWA Grand Prix #3 was a good day for yours truly. I won the gold for most-improved Sinclair and took second place for the premier cup. Snatch 90kg, Clean & Jerk 130kg, total 220kg. Just as Jack Walls predicted. … Continue reading

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Brian’s Latest Comments doesn’t scale.

Or, to be fair, MySQL 3.x is rubbish. But you knew that already. Most of the blogs on the Ozblogistan network use BLC. Recently, Larvatus Prodeo came on board and expected it to work for them too. But it simply … Continue reading

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More tweaking for Ozblogistan

I did some minor optimisations on Ozblogistan last weekend. I have HTTP compression enabled on the webserver (gzip, to be precise). I found out through the excellent YSlow plugin that not everything was being compressed. HTML was compressed, but not … Continue reading

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